Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the Yearbook. Their Harvard, thank God, is not mine. But perhaps in the next two weeks it will come to be everybody's, for the principle of yearbooks is that at the end a maudlin glue shuts everybody's eyes to memory; we may even be ready to adopt third-hand, third-rate interpretations of our experience...
...white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this assumption ?which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt white standards?is revealed in all kinds of striking ways, from Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in 40 years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals . . . The only way that the white man can be released from...
...Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, whose government is afraid of U.S. competition in Europe, repeatedly muttered "absurd" as Schréder and other foreign ministers pressed their case. However, Schréder had a potent weapon. France, Europe's lowest-cost agricultural producer, is demanding that the Six adopt a uniform policy on farm prices by July. If this happens, Germany would be forced to find new work for at least a million of its high-cost farmers. Schréder warned that his government would frustrate any attempt to adopt a common agricultural policy unless France in return...
...sting so often departs and turns into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it cheerfully, that a man is simply bound in honor, with reference to many of the facts that seem at first to disconcert his peace to adopt this way of escape. Refuse to admit their badness; despise their power; ignore their presence; turn your attention the other way; and so far as you yourself are concerned at any rate, though the facts may still exist, their evil character exists no longer. Since you make them evil...
...Byron in 1812, he had just published Childe Harold and was the hero of London society. Annabella reported to her mother that she found him "a very bad, very good man ... He is sincerely repentant for the evil he has done, though he has no resolution (without aid) to adopt a new course of conduct and feeling." It took her no time to decide that she could provide precisely the aid he needed: "I consider it as an act of humanity and Christian duty not to deny him any temporary satisfaction he can derive from my acquaintance." Byron, while just...